[-empyre-] AR musings in Leonardo Electronic Almanac

[Talan Memmott]

 So, AR has nothing to do with the actualities of reality, but the exclusivity of a certain calls.... what do we do with it then? It is TOOOOOO cool!  hence, no teleology.... It seems beyond use-value --'cept for the museum tour --- and though excessive, offers no excess....


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From: Alan Sondheim 
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Date: 2011-04-26 21:37
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] AR musings in Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Hi - The Leonardo article is excellent; the reason SL faded, however, is that it didn't fulfill the dream of virtual life - most people are used to games, and SL has no teleology at all. I've thought of it as reverse AR, since the porosity goes the other way - portals into real spaces, and evidence of those spaces projected into SL. I think Garrett Lynch is a good example of this.
  
In your other email you write: "The hype about AR comes exactly from the fact that a device that everybody enjoys and likes to have (smartphone, iPad), and is a symbol of being (let's face it) wealthy and hip, is ALSO capable of doing this new and cool technological thing." Below, you describe it as "chic." 

Are these people then your audience?  

- Alan
 
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Tamiko Thiel <tamiko at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
  Hi Y'all,
 
 Leonardo Electronic Almanac just published an article of mine with musings on the "urge to augment," plus comments on some of the augments I've been able to encounter in person.
 
 These website has the abstract, and a link to a pdf with the full article:
 http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/cyber-animism_and_augmented_dreams/
 
 take care, Tamiko
 
 
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